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For anybody whose never seen Leon/The Professional or Trainspotting, here's your obligatory spoiler alert.
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At the end of "The Professional" when Leon is only 20 feet away from freedom & you fully expect him to make it out alive. The light becomes increasingly brilliant & glowing. Then, all of a sudden, everything becomes quiet (save for a few piano tinklings trailing off into the ether) & the camera (his perspective) drops to the ground.
And in "Trainspotting", Tommy's spiraling junk habit until he ends up dead. Especially when MacGregor visits him & everything's been pawned save a beat up soccer ball & a tattered Iggy Pop poster. Now everytime I hear the "When we were 2 little boys" song that Spud sings in the pub after the wake, I get choked up.
And the end of "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" when Billy finally gets shot. Like all great tragedies, you know it's gonna happen from the get-go (as Billy put it, "Times may change, I don't"), but that doesn't soften the blow any when he finally bites it. |
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